Healthcare Support Worker

Job summary

Dunlop Ward is a 24 bedded ward that specialises in the care of long term cardiac conditions and acute medicine. The team are friendly and dedicated with a shared goal of ensuring high quality care is provided making the patient experience a positive one. When joining our ward, you will work within a multi-disciplinary team and be responsible for assisting the nursing staff to improve and maintain high standards of care, looking after patients health and well-being of through assessment, treatment and rehabilitation. #CaretojoinusTSD?

Main duties of the job

Follow the individual plan of care for each patient when undertaking the following:

• Bed making
• Assist patients with personal hygiene including care of hair, nails, oral hygiene and shaving
• Assist with treatment and prevention of pressure areas and continence management for all patients
• Assist patients with elimination requirements, including catheter care
• Assist patients to rehabilitate, working with physiotherapy and occupational therapists
• Assist patients with choosing and recording intake of meals
• Feed patients, encouraging patients to drink and replenishing water jugs when necessary, maintain fluid balance charts as required
• Checking of controlled drugs with Registered Nurse as required
• Complete nutritional assessment records and weigh patients as required
• Monitoring and maintaining fluid balance records, food and weight charts as required for individual patients under the direction of a Registered Nurse, recording and reporting findings as required
• Use equipment competently following training
• Escort patients to other departments/hospitals for investigation or treatment as necessary

Following training and assessment, assist the Registered Nurse in other duties if appropriate including:

• Simple dressings
• Assisting with out-patient clinics
• Routine specimens and urine testing
• Taking and recording of temperature, pulse, blood pressure and oxygen saturation levels
• Blood glucose monitoring
• Venepuncture and Cannulation
• Basic life support

About us

Why work with us - Our people are caring, committed, inclusive and focussed on quality. We focus on solutions and people's strengths. We encourage outside the box thinking and embrace innovation and change wherever it can drive improvement.

If you share our values and vision and are passionate about working with people on what matters to them, you could be a real assed to Team Torbay and South Devon.

Listed are a few of the additional benefits that are available to you as an employee:

• NHS Pension Scheme
• Childcare at our day nursery
• Generous Holiday Entitlement, starting at 27 days a year (for full time workers) plus bank/public holidays
• Staff Discounts
• Career development and training opportunities
• Employee Support - Staff have access to a 24-hour helpline